08.28.06

No longer a newborn…now a big girl!

Posted in Uncategorized at 1:49 pm by Katrina

We celebrated Aliyah’s three-month birthday last week with brownies with pink sprinkles; well her parents did anyways. She is no longer considered a newborn now. We are enjoying lots of new discoveries everyday. She loves female vocalists (Mommy included!) but her favorite is jazz. She loves seeing the light through the trees on our walks. Her newest favorite game involves Mom leaning over her and tickling her face with my hair. Every day she is getting more vocal! We sure have a talker!

On the non-baby related items in our life: Jonathan is back at school taking only one graduate course while working full-time. This is a change of our plans, but will be much better for family time. He is working hard and then comes home and enjoys being a father! (both the positive and negative!)

Two weekends ago, I performed in a great concert by a chamber orchestra called inscape. It’s great to be playing again especially with these musicians. If you are a DC local, check them out! inscapechambermusicproject/
The next concert is October 8 at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Bethesda, Maryland.

We are making our annual pilgramage to California for Thanksgiving this year. We hope to see as many of our family members as we can!

Check out our updated photos on gallery

08.04.06

~~This is love~~

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:10 pm by Katrina

I have been surrounded by love all of my life. I love my parents. I love my sisters and family. I have been madly in love with my husband for nearly 10 years. I am still amazed how love only multiplies and I just have room for more. The love for my daughter is a different from anything than I have experienced.

My mother used to tell me that she “loved me more” than I loved her. It bugged. How could she know how much I loved her? She couldn’t compare! Mom, now I understand. My love for Aliyah is bigger than I ever imagined.

This is “You’ll-never-understand-until-you-have-a-child-of-your-own” love.

It’s “God-so-loved-the-World” love.

The type of love than wells up within me, pervading my soul. It’s the type that I find myself rocking my daughter well beyond the threshold of sleep just so that I could cuddle and sing lullabies. (Are lullabies truly written to soothe children?) It is the type of love that caused me to hold her on my chest and simply cry tears of joy.

So, Mom, now I understand. I whisper in her ear that she’ll never understand how much I love her ’till she has her own.